As a little girl I used to dream up my imaginary farm in a different way every week and I am sure that every time there was a new farm incarnation I gave it a new name but now that I'm a big girl and the farm is not longer a dream but an actual piece of land that I own .... I'm completely stumped as to what to call it. I have lived here for over a year now and nothing has seemed quite 'right' for fit. I always envisioned having a sign made to hang at the end of the driveway and signify this place as named but it hasn't yet come to pass and because of something else almost completely unrelated the issue has come up again.
I realized the other day that Nova is getting close to foaling and although I have no idea what the baby is going to be like I have high hopes of getting both she and the foal inspected and approved with the American Sport Pony Registry. It would at least give them papers which could stay with them through the rest of their lives and hopefully prevent them from ending up anywhere they shouldn't, but I would really like to register both of them as Such and Such Farm's __(insert pony name here)__ . Of course, in order to do that, I need to actually have a farm name.
Ideally this wouldn't be a name attached specifically to this property but rather a name that would move with me from place to place, be used on websites, on horse registration names, on any future business ventures etc. I'm totally stumped. I need help! I wanted the name to mean something to me as a person, or to at least sound pretty as a farm name without making me think of glittery fairy unicorn ponies, but nothing I have tried on for size works so I've completely abandoned that it has to mean anything to me already because it will grow to mean something to me as the farm develops.
My background is purely English riding. I'm probably not going to do any kind of advertising for boarding/training/breeding. My interests are more in sales and marketing of horses and equipment and in rehabilitating horses. (I'm not talking rescue organization here. I'm talking one horse at a time, fixing them up, brushing up their riding, polishing them and selling them). I would say that my riding and the horses I choose are more oriented towards hunter/jumpers, fox hunting, and eventing.
The farm logo I have in mind is a very simple celtic knot with a horse jumping through the middle of it. I can't find a representation online, everything is too ornate, but my heritage is for the most part Scotch/Irish/Welsh and the exact symbol I want to use has a lot of sentimental meaning to me personally for reasons that go well beyond it having anything to do with blood. I do like names that come from Gaelic but I don't know what many of them mean and I haven't found any quick translations that made sense online. It may sound pretty but when it translates to 'Dark Hill Farm' it kind of loses some of the magic.
Other than that, here are some names I have considered and not completely hated. Incidentally, I like Stables rather than Farms but I'm a stickler for the way a word grouping sounds together and for whatever reason Farms ends up sounding better with a lot of them.
- Roxley Park Performance Horses (It sounds like something out of a Jane Austen novel and when I hear it I imagine a big old English stone manor. I combined my two dogs names to make Roxley.)
- Castle Rock Farms
- Stone Gate Sporthorses
- Balimoor Farms (Balimoor is just a word I made up because I thought it sounded pretty.)
- Battle Creek Farms
It's a very short list! This is why I need help. Anyone have any brilliant ideas? Some cunning literary reference? A witty horse related term turned farm name? I always test it with Nova's name when I register her too. Her full name is Champagne Supernova (because that's the kick ass song that was playing when I picked her up and it just fits her) so it would be
Roxley Park's Champagne Supernova
Castle Rock's Champagne Supernova
etc. etc. etc.
